Soft hat



J. JOSEPHS.

son HAT. APPLlCATlON FILED JUNE 25. I920.

' Patented June 21, 1 921.

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JULIUS JOSEPI-IS, or new roan, n. Y. CGMPANY, or n SOFT assrenon TO THEoaoru'r & KNAP]? aw roan, n. Y.

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To all whom it may concern: Be it known that 1, Jones Josnrns, citizenof Russian Poland, residing at 235 East 11th street, in the cit county,and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in SoftHats, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to hats of cloth or other material, particularlymaterial that is so soft that the hat will not itself retain the desiredshape, and of the type which it is usually desired to wear in the shapeof the ordinary felt hat, having the top centrally depressed from frontto back, with the top side creases slightly spaced apart, and the sidessomewhat indented.

The object of my invention is the provision of means for retaining theshape of a soft hat of this sort. I

My invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangementof parts herein described and claimed and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings. These drawings, in which similar referencecharacters designate corresponding parts in all views, show a preferredembodiment of my invention. I

Figure l is a cross sectional view through a hat embodying theinvention.

Fig. 2 is a view looking upward into the hat shown inFig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a partial section on the line 11 of Fig. 2 showing the tabsunfastened and the hat out of shape.

Referring to the drawings, the hat 1 may be of any suitable soft clothmaterial and of the ordinary shape, being crushable and adapted to beroughly handled for cleaning or packing or in use.

Inside the hat and at the two sides thereof, at opposite points, Iprovide tabs 2 and 8 which may be drawn together and fastened by meanssuch as a snap fastener 4: so as to draw the sides 5 of the hat towardeach other, forming and maintaining indentations 6 in the sides of thehat. The top portion 7 of the hat is centrally depressed from front toback, as at 8, providing upstanding creases 9 at each side, in the usualmanner in whicha felt hat is worn, and the whereas, when the hat isSpecification of Letters Patent. Patented J 1 9 21, 1921,

1920. Serial No. 391,792.

tabs are located with respect to the top portion 7, and are made of suchlength as to hold the creased portions 9 of the top at the desireddistance apart while retaining the creases, and holding the sides of thehat indented in the desired fashion, the preferred position ofattachment of the tabs being slightly above the depressed portion 8.

In a hat of this sort the preferred construction is with a crown portion10 includingthe sides 5 to which the crown portion 7 is attached,preferably the seam 11 being made with the aid of a tape 12 under whichthe tabs 2, 3, may be fastened during the "construction of the hat,since this tape passes over the preferred point of attachment for thetabs in order to effect indentation of the sides at the proper point.

When the hat is worn, the snap fastener 4 will ordinarily be fastened,holding the tabs 2, 3, together, and holding the hat in shape; not inuse, this may be unfastened, allowing the hat to resume its originalmanufactured form, and permitting of it being folded for packing, orsubjected to cleaning operations and the like.

Having now described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:

1. In a soft hat, means for retaining the shape with the top centrallydepressed front to back, the top side creases suitably spaced, and thesides indented, comprising tabs secured to each side of the interior ofthe hat slightly above the depressed portion, and means to fastentogether said tabs.

2. In a soft hat, side and top portions, a binding tape arranged at thejoining of said portions, tabs secured under said tape on oppositesides, and means for fastening said tabs together when the hat iscreased to hold the shape.

In a soft hat shaped to be worn with side indentations, means forretaining the shape comprising tabs attached to the interior of thesides at the central portions of the indentations, and means fordetachably fastening said tabs together.

In testimony whereof I have name to this specification.

JULIUS J OSEPHS.

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